Spiritual Shakespeares / edited by Ewan Fernie.

• Superior document: Accents on Shakespeare
• TeilnehmendeR: Fernie, Ewan, 1971-
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Accents on Shakespeare.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Shakespeare, spirituality and contemporary criticism /; 'Where hope is coldest' : All's well that ends well /; Harry's (in)human face /; Waiting for Gobbo /; 'Salving the mail' : perjury, grace and the disorder of things in Love's labour's lost /; The Shakespearean fetish /; Bottom's secret /; Spectres of Hamlet /; The last act : presentism, spirituality and the politics of Hamlet /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.
• ISBN: 1134363478; 1280244704; 9786610244706; 0203625498
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ewan Fernie.

Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the 'religious turn' in recent literary theory and to the spiritualized politics of terrorism and the 'War on Terror'.Exploring a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, the volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituali